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⁠French stock markets regulator AMF seen over a 14,000% surge in enquiries related to fraudulent crypto offers in 2018 as opposed to 2016

⁠The report released by crypto research firm Diar notes that the number of on-chain bitcoin transactions reported in April approached the all-time high of 11.2 million transactions reported in December 2017

⁠Blockchain consortium R3 and global IT leader Wipro Limited have developed a blockchain solution prototype to enable digital currency for interbank settlements in Thailand

⁠Chinese social media giant and payment service provider WeChat banned cryptocurrency transactions in its payments policy

​​⁠HBUS, the operator of U.S.-based crypto exchange Huobi.com, has announced the appointment of Oren Blonstein as its vice president of product and technology

​​⁠A single address has been responsible for more than half of the bitcoin cash transactions in the past month

⁠Bitcoin nears $6,000 after dipping below $5,700 yesterday, all top the top 20 coins are solidly in green

⁠A critical security update to its governance contract has been announced by MakerDAO, the Decentralized Autonomous Organization behind the DAI stablecoin

⁠Tether and Bitfinex vow to fight NY attorney general’s claims that $850 million of Tether’s cash reserves was used to plug losses

⁠A New York judge has partially sided with Bitfinex and Tether in the ongoing court case

⁠Microsoft has released the Azure Blockchain Development Kit for the Ethereum blockchain, designed to aid developers using the newly-released Azure Blockchain Service

⁠Phased implementation begins for joint platform built by ASX and Digital Asset Holdings

⁠Ant Financial has participated in a $10 million Series A round and partnered with QEDIT, an Israeli blockchain privacy solutions firm that develops zero-knowledge proof tech

⁠$200 million funding plans at ConsenSys followed by major restructuring, Kavita Gupta to step down

⁠Bitcoin developer Pieter Wuille has unveiled two proposals on GitHub for a Taproot soft fork to address privacy issues

⁠University students in Moscow to test blockchain voting tech that could be used in the next mayoral elections

⁠Global coffee chain Starbucks is working with Microsoft on its blockchain-based coffee tracking initiative

⁠Ether volumes on DApps have registered a new high, but the number of new DApps coming on chain is low

⁠Charlie Munger, VP of holding company Berkshire Hathaway, said that BTC investors share the values of Judas Iscariot

⁠An already-fixed critical vulnerability which could have rendered the TRX blockchain unusable has been disclosed by the Tron Foundation

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⁠⁠Winklevoss Capital has participated in a $4.5 million seed financing round in a flare mitigation provider to advance its construction of data centers that can mine cryptocurrencies

⁠⁠76-years old Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz again says that cryptocurrencies should be shut down due to a lack of transparency

⁠⁠A top executive at one of Asia’s biggest banks says the $9 trillion trade finance industry needs to go paperless to tackle fraud, citing blockchain-based examples

⁠⁠A test ad campaign for PepsiCo built on blockchain delivered a 28% increase in efficiency

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